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Summer in Baden-Baden (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780811214841)
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xSummer in Baden-Baden was acclaimed by The New York Review of Books as "a short poetic masterpiece" and by Donald Fanger in The Los Angeles Times as "gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving."
A complex, highly original novel, Summer in Baden-Baden has a double narrative. It is wintertime, late December: a species of "now." A narrator--Tsypkinis on a train going to Leningrad. And it is also mid-April 1867. The newly married Dostoyevskys, Fyodor, and his wife, Anna Grigor'yevna, are on their way to Germany, for a four-year trip. This is not, like J. M. Coetzee's The Master of St. Petersburg, a Dostoyevsky fantasy. Neither is it a docu-novel, although its author was obsessed with getting everything "right." Nothing is invented, everything is invented. Dostoyevsky's reckless passions for gambling, for his literary vocation, for his wife, are matched by her all-forgiving love, which in turn resonates with the love of literature's disciple, Leonid Tsypkin, for Dostoyevsky. In a remarkable introductory essay (which appeared in The New Yorker), Susan Sontag explains why it is something of a miracle that Summer in Baden-Baden has survived, and celebrates the happy event of its publication in America with an account of Tsypkin's beleaguered life and the important pleasures of his marvelous novel.
Author: Leonid Tsypkin
ISBN-10: 0811214842
ISBN-13: 9780811214841
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2001
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.66w x 0.71d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2002 pg. 74
New York Times 03/03/2002 pg. 10
Booksense '76 May/Jun 2002 05/01/2002 pg. 1
New York Review of Books 05/23/2002 pg. 74
New York Times 06/02/2002 pg. 24
New York Times 12/08/2002 pg. 65
Newsweek 10/08/2007 pg. 14
A complex, highly original novel, Summer in Baden-Baden has a double narrative. It is wintertime, late December: a species of "now." A narrator--Tsypkinis on a train going to Leningrad. And it is also mid-April 1867. The newly married Dostoyevskys, Fyodor, and his wife, Anna Grigor'yevna, are on their way to Germany, for a four-year trip. This is not, like J. M. Coetzee's The Master of St. Petersburg, a Dostoyevsky fantasy. Neither is it a docu-novel, although its author was obsessed with getting everything "right." Nothing is invented, everything is invented. Dostoyevsky's reckless passions for gambling, for his literary vocation, for his wife, are matched by her all-forgiving love, which in turn resonates with the love of literature's disciple, Leonid Tsypkin, for Dostoyevsky. In a remarkable introductory essay (which appeared in The New Yorker), Susan Sontag explains why it is something of a miracle that Summer in Baden-Baden has survived, and celebrates the happy event of its publication in America with an account of Tsypkin's beleaguered life and the important pleasures of his marvelous novel.
Author: Leonid Tsypkin
ISBN-10: 0811214842
ISBN-13: 9780811214841
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2001
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.66w x 0.71d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2002 pg. 74
New York Times 03/03/2002 pg. 10
Booksense '76 May/Jun 2002 05/01/2002 pg. 1
New York Review of Books 05/23/2002 pg. 74
New York Times 06/02/2002 pg. 24
New York Times 12/08/2002 pg. 65
Newsweek 10/08/2007 pg. 14
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